On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Yada yada yada. Could go on for a while, but I won't. Let's hear
> about you! :-D

Luckily Gump has enough visionaries to leave room for the pragmatics,
one of whom is me. ;-)

I know that I don't have infinite time to spend on Gump (or anything
else) and I really hate it when I start things and know I won't be
able to finish them.  So I try to focus on the places where I can be
most effective.

Right now I concentrate on getting as many things buildable as
possible.  By getting the metadata correct and the dependencies
straight I'm far more effective for Gump than by fiddling with Python.
It has been fun to go back and forth together with Niclas until we
finally had most of Avalon building.  I try to avoid the "wait 24
hours" part of Leo's other [RT] by offering my Gump setup for tests.

This means that I don't have time to get up-to-speed with Python to
help with actual Gumpy development.  I can comment and chime in into
the discussion and that's what I do.

Having said that, my primary goals for Gump - after being able to
build as much as possible - are support for different build systems
(Maven, NAnt, make, ...) and making Gump reach beyond Java.  The .NET
platform may be tricky given the instability of Mono for non-Intel
platforms (and in particular for non-Linux OSes on non-Intel
platforms), but in the end I'd like us to be able to offer Gump as a
service to the whole of the ASF.

Stefan

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